The 2023 Westminster Garden Tour

Westminster Cares is proud to announce the details of our 20th anniversary Westminster Garden Tour. The Tour Dates are Saturday July 8th and Sunday July 9th. Gardens will be open from10am till 3pm.

Gordon and Mary Hayward's Westminster West gardens will once again highlight the Westminster Cares Garden Tour. Gordon and Mary helped start the tour in 2003, after a successful garden tour for the Yellow Barn Music Festival. "We love it," Mary says. "It's great to have everyone come by and chat. It's all volunteer, and that makes it great, too."

Online tickets are currently discounted ($14 for 1: $28 for 2). You can purchase them through the site until July 6th. You'll find them available at westminstercares.org.

Tickets will be available for purchase throughout the tour at the Haywards Gardens (508 McKinnon Road, Putney, VT) or at the Westminster Institute / Butterfield Library (3534 Route 5, Westminster, VT).

The Westminster Center School garden, Hope Roots-flower farm and one other private garden in addition to the Haywards' will be on the tour. Several special programs are planned throughout the weekend. On Saturday there will be a puppet show by Sandglass Theater; and a garden design "Talk and Walk" with Julie Moir-Messervy. On Sunday there will also be a bee-keeping workshop.

Entry to these special events is included with your ticket. You will be able to purchase tickets here on the website, starting June 1st. They can also be purchased throughout the tour.

Eric and Ines Bass, founders of Sandglass Theater, will present two short puppetry pieces Saturday at the Haywards' garden. One, titled "MUD," is a Vermont sort of story about a young man whose truck gets stuck in the mud. It's performed with song and guitar and, of course, puppets. The other is a crankie (a rolling sk/croll that tells a story in pictures) called "BIG PIG,"
also told with song, guitar, and a dance. These shows are for all ages.

Lunch and beverages will be available for purchase in the garden café under tents at the Haywards'. Morning Star Perennials & Trees will again have an array of unique and Vermont-hardy plants for sale at the Hayward garden.

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